Dozens of party members were at the Devonshire House Hotel on Edge Lane for the event.

The vigil included speeches inside the hotel before party members gathered outside lighting tealights in the gardens in memory of the MP.

It is one of many vigils held across the country following the death of Ms Cox after being attacked and shot in the street outside her constituency advice surgery in Birstall in West Yorkshire.

Eyewitnesses said the 41-year-old mother of two was shot three times and attacked with a knife in the attack on Thursday.

Today Thomas Mair, 52, from Birstall, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London charged with murdering the Batley and Spen MP.

Wirral South MP Alison McGovern said party members in the vigil were “devastated, just absolutely distraught” at the shocking death of their party colleague.

The Labour party holds a vigil at the Devonshire House Hotel for murdered Jo Cox. Alison McGovern hugs Liverpools Deputy Mayor Ann O'Byrne

Ms Govern said the event was “about us thinking about Jo, thinking about Brendan and the family”.

She continued: “Also remembering what she stood for and that we must continue her fight, whether it’s for the people in the world who have the least, trapped in conflict zones, or whether it’s people who need care in our own country.

“We must be fighting and campaigning for those people and reminding ourselves that Jo was full of life and full of love – and the love that she had won’t ever die.”

The Labour party holds a vigil at the Devonshire House Hotel for murdered Jo Cox.

Ms McGovern said: “Jo was someone who, yes just a Member of Parliament for a year but had done a huge amount with that, especially on the campaign to protect civilians in Syria, but equally she’d had a long career beforehand for Oxfam and other humanitarian agencies.

“She was someone who represents not just the best of the parliamentary Labour party, but the best of our country.”

Among those at the vigil were Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson , as well as Merseyside MPs including Luciana Berger, Steve Rotheram, Louise Ellman, Stephen Twigg, Bill Esterson, Maria Eagle, Peter Dowd plus many councillors, as well as party members.

The Labour party holds a vigil at the Devonshire House Hotel for murdered Jo Cox.

Ms McGovern added that although many of the party members at the vigil “might not have known her personally, she knew the things that she stood for: love and dignity, and standing against extremism and the hate that is too often in our society, and they believe in those things and that is why they have come today”.

Riverside MP, Mrs Ellman, added: "It was vitally important for this vigil to be held and reassuring to see so many people coming at such short notice."Jo Cox's murder has had a profound impact on all of us. She was a caring person who wanted to help anyone in need wherever they were."